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• a variation of embarkation.

embarcation

American  

[em-bahr-kay-shuhn] / ˌɛm bɑrˈkeɪ ʃən /

noun

1. embarkation.

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Other Word Forms

• reembarcation
  noun

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Example Sentences

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embarcation

This week the volunteers were packing up for embarcation at Buenaventura.

From Time Magazine Archive

Some died on the way, some failed to reach the port of embarcation, and the ship assigned to the missionaries was too small to carry all of them.

From The Philippine Islands, 1493-1898 — Volume 14 of 55 1606-1609 Explorations by Early Navigators, Descriptions of the Islands and Their Peoples, Their History and Records of The Catholic Missions, As Related in Contemporaneous Books and Manuscripts, Showing the Political, Economic, Commercial and Religious Conditions of Those Islands from Their Earliest Relations with European Nations to the Close of the Nineteenth Century by Emma Helen Blair

The embarcation was a wondrous spectacle, such as civilized eyes have rarely beheld, and can never witness again.

From The Adventures of the Chevalier De La Salle and His Companions, in Their Explorations of the Prairies, Forests, Lakes, and Rivers, of the New World, and Their Interviews with the Savage Tribes, Two Hundred Years Ago by John S. C. (John Stevens Cabot) Abbott

As for the A.M.L.O. at any other port but this one, I remark nothing about him except his princely generosity in letting me have an embarcation card.

From Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 153, October 10, 1917 by Various

The thirteenth of March was appointed for the day of embarcation.

From Incidents of Travel in Yucatan, Vol. II. by John L. Stephens

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